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Inference.net is selling access to "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Cyber," described on its listing as "a refusal-removed variant" of DeepSeek's October that "has reduced safety behavior" and answers requests the original declines. The are a community "" release from the Hugging Face account mrfakename, not a DeepSeek product.
Access is per team: a person reviews each request, personal email addresses are rejected, and calls without approval fail. The page lists the base model's price of $0.30 per million input and $1.00 per million output, and does not say whether the variant costs the same.
Permitted uses are framed as , security research, trust and safety work and fiction, with attack tooling limited to systems the user owns or may test.
Inference.net says it has run no on the modified weights. An open model's safety training now comes off in a weekend, and a commercial host will sell the result behind a sign-up form.
A refusal-stripped DeepSeek model is on sale to vetted teams
Inference.net is selling access to "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Cyber," described on its listing as "a refusal-removed variant" of DeepSeek's October checkpoint that "has reduced safety behavior" and answers requests the original declines. The weights are a community "abliterated" release from the account mrfakename, not a DeepSeek product. Access is per team: a person reviews each request, personal email addresses are rejected, and calls without approval fail. The page lists the base model's price of $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output, and does not say whether the variant costs the same.
Permitted uses are framed as red-teaming, security research, trust and safety work and fiction, with attack tooling limited to systems the user owns or may test. Inference.net says it has run no benchmarks on the modified weights. An open model's safety training now comes off in a weekend, and a commercial host will sell the result behind a sign-up form. SourcesA
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This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 1st 2026.